Flying teams

Post date: Dec 02, 2011 2:43:23 PM

Overview

Network Dataset

The dataset name is Flying_teams, and includes the following:

• • Flying_teams.net: 48 vertices (cadet pilots), 353 valued arcs (1 - qualifies as a flying partner, -1 - does not qualify as a flying partner), no edges, no loops.

  • Flying_teams.clu: the (48) cadets' original eight (alphabetical) instruction groups (classes 1 thru 8).

  • Flying_teams.paj: Pajek project file with the two files listed above.

Background

In 1943, Leslie D. Zeleny administered a sociometric test to 48 cadet pilots at an US Army Air Forces flying school. Cadets were trained to fly a two- seated aircraft, taking turns in flying and aerial observing. Cadets were assigned to instruction groups ranging in size from 5 to 7 at random, so they had little or no control over who their flying partners would be. The sociometric test was used to improve the composition of instruction groups. Zeleny asked each cadet to name the members of his flight group with whom he would like to fly as well as those with whom he would not like to fly.

References

• • J. L . Moreno (et al.), The Sociometry Reader (Glencoe (Illinois): The Free Press, 1960, p. 534-547).

  • W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, & V. Batagelj, Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Chapter 4.

History

• • Original author: Leslie D. (Day) Zeleny (?1898, President of the Midwest Sociological Society 1939-40, (then) at Iowa State University).

  • Data coded into Pajek data files by W. de Nooy, 2001.